An Interview with Dana Delany (Katherine, 'Desperate Housewives')

Q: Katherine and her new girlfriend left Wisteria Lane, are you planning to return to the series?

Dana: "We don't know. I just did this pilot with ABC and we'll find out in May if it's picked up. If it doesn't get picked up, it would be nice to go back to Desperate Housewives if there's room for me."

Q: What has been your favorite Desperate Housewives episode?

Dana: "I've had so many. What I love about this show is you can go from raw comedy to deep, serious emotions, and you can do that in one episode. I think it's amazing that the show is able to pull that off. I really enjoyed my stuff with Bree. I thought the competition between me and Bree that turned into a friendship was probably the most fun for me. It was both funny and catty, yet we ended up really loving each other in the end."

Q: Were you a fan of the show before you got the role?

Dana: "I was! It was like nothing else -- I've done a lot of TV and I've seen these kind of shows fail constantly, but somehow Marc found the combination of comedy, drama and mystery, he found the right balance. The fact that people from all over the world relate to it is phenomenal."

Q: You are starring in a pilot for ABC, what can you tell us about it?

Dana: "It's completely different. It's a procedural and because it's ABC, the series is very character-driven. My character was a very successful brain surgeon who had a car accident and her hands go numb now, so she can't operate anymore and has become a medical examiner. She tries to figure out each week what has happened to these people. It was called Body of Evidence, but they have to change it because it's a Patricia Cornwell novel, so they're throwing out different names. It might end up being called M.E. -- I think that's a good title."

Q: Will you be able to star in both series?

Dana: "No, I couldn't do that because I'd be the lead of the new show."

Q: Do you have any projects in the works?

Dana: "Yes, I have a movie coming out this month called Multiple Sarcasms, which is a little indie I did with Timothy Hutton and Mira Sorvino."

Q: Anything to say to the fans?

Dana: "I'd really like for them to go online and sign up for the Child Hunger campaign because we all need to join together and help our neighborhoods."